Go list: Van Warped Tour returns

Houston Chronicle |
July 30, 2014
| Updated: July 31, 2014 1:23pm

Joe Carmouche, Bayou City Brass Band, Althea Rene and the Summer Jazz Workshop All Stars will be among the featured performers at this 24th annual event spread over four days and four venues. The festival spotlights international, national and regional musicians.

There will a whole lot of banging going on as the Houston Roller Derby presents its Summer Showdown at Houston Indoor Sports. The two-day event will pit teams from Houston, Dallas and Washington, D.C. There also will be a silent auction and bake sale as the Houston All-Stars look to finance their trip to a national tournament in September. Lawn chairs are encouraged.

The Galveston Historical Foundation concludes its summer lecture series honoring the island's 175th anniversary at the historical Menard campus. This final lecture - "The Galveston City Company: First Land Development Company in Texas" - will be presented by W. Dwayne Jones and Andrew Coleman. Jones is executive director of the foundation; Coleman is a Galveston native and historian. Tours of the island's oldest dwelling, the 1838 Menard House, also will be available.